Despite Councillor Kiran Ramchandani writing that Harrow's Labour administration is taking the borough’s final situation “very seriously”, the rest of her letter (‘Standing up for what we deserve’, Your Views, November 27) proves the opposite.

For example, the ‘lobbying Government for more money’ council motion she mentioned contained six variations on the theme of ‘Conservatives are evil and stupid’. Why on earth would the Government listen to a campaign that’s so pathetically partisan?

She also wrote that if Harrow Borough Council had the same funding as Brent “we would be able to spend an extra £420million a year”.

I’ve got news for her: no government — be it Conservative, Labour or one filled with drunken spendthrifts — is going to give Harrow the same level of funding as Brent, because the two boroughs are worlds apart in terms of need.

Brent is the 24th most deprived local government area in the whole county, containing six of the 100 most disadvantaged wards in London.

Harrow has no such wards, is ranked 184th nationally, and has actually become less deprived over the past decade.

Brent has lower life expectancy and educational performance, coupled with higher unemployment, childhood obesity and even more smoking deaths — not to mention double the number of crimes.

I could go on, but the point is Brent gets additional funding to address challenges that are generally much less severe in Harrow.

There is a sensible case to be made for Harrow to get more money from Government, and if Labour were remotely interested in making that case instead of playing political games, we’d join them in doing as such. As it is, Labour’s campaign resembles a child asking for a real dinosaur for Christmas, then having a tantrum when they don’t get one.

Cllr Barry Macleod-Cullinane

Con/Harrow on the Hill ward, Harrow Borough Council